Farhan Akhtar to make film set in pre-independence period

Bollywood is mainly known to make period films based on real life events or mythological stories. Farhan Akhtar however seems to have some other plans. The news is that Farhan is planning to make a period film! The director – actor went onto say that he is working on a script of a period film and that the film will not be depicting any historical events. Instead, it will be a fictitious story set in some particular period of the pre-independence era. Rest of the details, as expected, are being kept under the wraps, thus setting the minds of the viewers to work overtime imagining the poster boy Farhan Akhtar in a period film!